Katla language

Katla (also Kaalak or Kwaalak) is a Katla language, closely related to a neighbouring language called Tima but otherwise quite divergent within the Niger–Congo family.

Katla
Kaalak
Native toNuba Hills, Sudan
EthnicityKatla, Gulud
Native speakers
25,000 Julud (2009)[1]
possibly 14,000 Katla in 1984[2]
Niger–Congo
  • Katla
    • Katla
Dialects
  • Katla-Cakom
  • Katla-Kulharong
  • Julud
Language codes
ISO 639-3kcr
Glottologkatl1237  Katla[3]
julu1237  Julud[4]

The variety Julud is mutually intelligible with Katla-Kulharong but not with Katla-Cakom.

Dialects and locations

Dialects and village locations (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):

  • Julud dialect: Kabog, Kabog North, Kabosh, Kambai, Karkando, Karkarya, Kary, Kimndang, Kitanngo, Kolbi, Koto Kork, Octiang, Rumber, Sabba, and Tolot
  • Katla dialect: Bombori, Karoka, Kateik, Kiddu, Kirkpong, and Koldrong
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References
  1. Katla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Katla at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Katla". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Julud". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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